Saints 1-4 Leicester - Match Thread

[Southner]

And a red for Suly, just to top the night off. 

[AlexLaw76]

LOL

what a night

[beatlesaint]

Any midfield with Adam Armstrong and Will Smallbone in it are offering zero protection to the centre backs, it’s like an open invitation to run straight at them. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Fuck off is that worth a red.

[obelisk]

Get Tall Paul back.

[Saint_clark]

That is never a red card.

[AlexLaw76]

very harsh that to b e fair

[Saint NL]

Just now, obelisk said:

Get Tall Paul back.

Lyanco and Tall Paul dream team returns

[saintant]

Embarrassing from 25 seconds onwards.

[Mustang Saint]

4 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Smallbone gives the ball away again. Needs dropping.

Shooting

[Suhari]

A little harsh I think.

Boos at full time.

Make a positive from this Russ.

[obelisk]

That red is debatable.

[SOTONSEASTSIDE]

Groundhog season!!!

[Sunglasses Ron]

Fucking hell!

Wouldn’t be Friday at home to Leicester without a red card.

[sfc4prem]

3 minutes ago, Crab Lungs said:

This is on Martin. 100%. Inflexible, suicidal tactics. 

Manning is pointless. Never actually where he should be. Playing Downes and Smallbone is such a weak partnership, this is where the Belfast wardrobe should be.

2 week break and we get served up this crock of shit. Leicester weren’t even that good, just clinical after being gifted most of their opportunities.

We won’t get up playing this way, we don’t have time to be a ‘work in progress’. 

Pathetic, small minded club with a losers mentality. 

Absolutely agree. Tinpot.

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

Just now, Suhari said:

A little harsh I think.

Boos at full time.

Make a positive from this Russ.

He will learn from it and it won't ever happen again

[The Kraken]

I’d like to see that again, first viewing is it’s a ridiculous red card,

[Lee On Solent Saint]

As bad as anything we saw under Jones and Selles. Utter embarrassment 

[Saint NL]

Well that was shit.

Positives: Edozie was decent, Bazunu can't really be faulted for the goals.

 

Negatives: pretty much everything else. Martin is a clown.

[woodsaint1]

27 minutes ago, trousers said:

I'm fed up of being that 'benefit of the doubt' supporter... sod it... Get Potter in now FFS...

Potter is never coming here. His last club was Chelsea. Give your head a wobble FFS

[Saint_clark]

Just now, The Kraken said:

I’d like to see that again, first viewing is it’s a ridiculous red card,

Both feet were on the floor, only thing I can think is the ref thought his feet were on the players leg instead.

[madge]

Thinking martins a bit shit…a defender who is unable to coach a team to defend. Our shape was dreadful with players getting in each others space.. 

sport’s republic can’t be trusted to get anything right… 

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Leicester have been pretty average.

We've been absolutely shit.

Far too many players who can't be arsed or who aren't good enough.

And just when you thought it couldn't get worse on comes Joe aribo for a jog - what a waste of a shirt.

We're not going up with Martin - I've seen enough. Yet another manager who can't adapt to what's happening on the pitch.

No idea how that was a red card, but can't blame anything on the ref - we deserved to get smashed and did.

[ashnats]

Thought we were OK for the first 10 seconds or so. Hopefully against Ipswich we will make it to the 10 minute mark with one goal or less, and at least then we have  a chance of maybe getting a draw (at half time, obviously not at game end).

[woodsaint1]

Could do with not getting that cunt Bobby Madeley refereeing us again. Never a red

[Sheaf Saint]

I reckon we will successfully appeal that red card. Ridiculously harsh.

[The Kraken]

Dave Prutton on comms saying “Leicester could have easily had 6, 7 or 8”. He’s not wrong. Fucking hell.

 

 

Edited 15 September, 2023 by The Kraken

[AlexLaw76]

Nothing good about that apart from Edozie and Bazunu.

Woeful and squarely on the Manager IMO. He is demonstrably out of his league. his set up will see us concede bucket load of goals, many of them will be ridiculous.

To think, Martin ridiculed a lad asking about our soft underbelly. 

 

We have seen enough woeful managers lately, so easy to spot another. He is f-ing terrible and needs to be removed from post.

[John Boy Saint]

“We”re coming for you - we”re coming for you - you dirty skate b**stards we’re coming for you” (if they don’t pass us going the other way) 🤪

We looked powder puff all over the pitch.

[sandwichsaint]

Hard to believe what we have just seen, no idea where we go from here.

RM will hang on for another 6-8 games but his position will rapidly become untenable if we carry on like this.

He has to change course but I'm not sure he will.

[Galway saint]

how bad was that 

[Yorkshire Saint]

Very concerning 

[gordonToo]

No doubt in my mind. I'd sack RM right now.

[Saint Keef]

Dear Saints. I would sincerely like to thank you or fucking up yet another of my weekends.

And a special message to Russell Martin. If your analysis of this bollocks is similar to the analysis after the Sunderland game, don't fucking bother!

[obelisk]

If Russell Martin was a new car I'd be sending it back.

[sfc4prem]

1 minute ago, gordonToo said:

No doubt in my mind. I'd sack RM right now.

I'm sadly with you. I just can't see any potential within him for learning from errors or adapting his world view. 

[verlaine1979]

Got absolutely battered on the counter without ever really being able to do the same back, despite Leicester being open and error prone themselves.

We still seem to have no clue how to actually build an attack. A Armstrong and Edozie our only ball carriers, everyone else always looking for the square pass, even if it's to a marked player. Just tedious rinse and repeat possession that eventually gets funneled into a yard of space inside the touchline where we're forced to hand it back.

Fucking abysmal.

[stknowle]

Just now, Lee On Solent Saint said:

As bad as anything we saw under Jones and Selles. Utter embarrassment 

It was worse. Far worse. I cannot believe we’ve fucked up yet again. I was worried we had when we appointed him. I was approx 90% sure we had after Sunderland. Now I 100 % know we have. Just get this nice but useless manager gone. Now.

[Suhari]

That midfield set up was always going to be weak.

Really badly set up team. Okay: some silly mistakes too, but still.

Not sure that Martin is all that.

[Dr Who?]

7 hours ago, HKsaint said:

We need to score 4 to 5 goals in order to win this game. 

5 would done it. 

[Morse]

27 minutes ago, Andy Hill said:

 Martin is exceeding my expectations. I thought he would be shit, I didn't think he would be this shit this soon. 

 

[Suhari]

1 minute ago, obelisk said:

If Russell Martin was a new car I'd be sending it back.

What sort of car would he be?

[ashnats]

Think September is a write off. October should be much better. Suggest we use September to practice defending.

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

3 minutes ago, woodsaint1 said:

Could do with not getting that cunt Bobby Madeley refereeing us again. Never a red

Makes absolutely no difference, We were shit and deserved what we got - infact lucky it was only 4

[Galway saint]

1 minute ago, Dr Who? said:

5 would done it. 

great insight 

[Ekelund]

Just now, Suhari said:

What sort of car would he be?

Skoda Fabia 

[The Cat]

16 minutes ago, Sunglasses Ron said:

Where do we rank in terms of being the laughing stock of English football?

Surely we’re top 3 but can’t actually think of anyone above us.

Fuck me. No one apart from Pompey cares about us enough to laugh, and it's not like we've lost every game is it?

[Colinjb]

What was Martin doing over the last two weeks!? 

Emphasising weakness it seems. 

F**k off. 

[danjosaint]

Get rid of that useless prick before we're to far adrift,  absolutely disgraceful tactics, worse than jones and thats saying something 

[The Kraken]

1 minute ago, Suhari said:

What sort of car would he be?

My first car, Ford fiesta mk1. Slow as fuck and leaked like a sieve.